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I am thinking this was caused by a bug in the phone's camera software. If the shutter is pressed and the phone orientation changes immediately it hiccups and combines 2 pictures orientations in to 1 photo. The part of the photo that is doubled makes me think this was a weird glitch.

It has to do with how the camera's sensor processes the image. It usually scans pixels horizontally or vertically, so this might be it. It's as when you try to use the flash with an exposure too fast for the shutter to capture and result with a black shadow going vertically in your image.

I honestly have no idea either. It was taken with my phone, so it wasn't a long exposure, or at least I didn't intend any long exposure(LG Optimus phone). Possibly just a major malfunction of my phone or how it saves the files? No editing done at all, I'm at a loss for ideas haha

Edit- someone mentioned in a comment below that it might be caused by a panoramic stitching error, and I definitely remember trying to take a vertical panoramic shot just to see if it would work but it didn't, so I turned the camera horizontally. I was drinking tecate in Baja California at the time haha, didn't think the camera saved this photo

I recreated this kind of error by starting in vertical panoramic mode and turning the phone horizontally, so that is certainly what happened. I have a galaxy s3, but I'm sure this can be done with most phones with a panoramic mode.

A long exposure would have had a huge amount of blur. Long exposures are when the shutter of the camera is open for a long period of time exposing the sensor to all incoming light. As someone who studies film and photography I really think this was shopped. Unless there is some magical way that phones cameras work where it takes 2 pictures and cuts them together. Even with a shutter speed of 1/4000 you would still be able to see motion blur and I doubt you would be able to reorient the camera in 1/4000th of a second.

The stitch assist theory makes a lot of sense, thats probably how this happened.

I don't get why they wouldn't think people would want vertical panorama. By doing it with your phone vertically you end up with a shot that has a higher vertical resolution. The HTC One default camera app is the same way. I guess doing it horizontally means less stitching but I like choice.

Edit: I guess really I still have choice and used it. I installed the new Android camera apk that has Photosphere (ripoff of MS Photosynth). Why must I kill my own arguments.

I work for a wireless provider and I have to say the newest Optimus we got is pretty fucking badass, exact same tech specs as the Galaxy S3. I am actually getting the new Optimus as my employee upgrade.

OK, that makes more sense... it must have still been halfway through a panorama shot. It's not possible to produce the image you took through any combination of camera motion and the normal rolling shutter artifacts, but your phone could still produce it if it was doing some behind-the-scenes photo manipulation (HDR, panorama, that sort of jazz).

It's a phone camera and they have a rolling shutter. think of it like the flatbed scanners that has a rolling light that scans the paper. It's the same idea. The bend happened at the point he turned his camera.

If it were caused by a rolling shutter you'd only get this effect if the sensor read diagonally corner to corner and you'd have to move the camera inhumanly fast. I have serious doubt that was what did this.

This could be the case, but I don't understand how it was instantly flipped between vertical and horizontal with no middle ground, it seems like there should be a curve or something unless OP is the Flash.

Also, from what I understand (engineering major), that's not how CCDs (the photosensors on cameras) work... They require a certain amount of time for light exposure, but it goes all at once, not left to right.

It's already been proven twice on reddit. TWICE. The other time when that a german and an australian... or something took a photo of the sunset and sunrise at the same time and when the photos were merged, proved that the world was flat. This is just more undeniable proof.

This isn't 1 exposure is it? If so it doesn't make sense to me. The rolling shutter effect still goes row by row (or column by column). If a row is like 40% horizontal and the other 60% vertical then that is the row where the flip took place. Why would the next row be 41% horizontal and 59% vertical? It shouldn't switch orientation like that back and forth several times (plus you don't see any orientation between vertical and horizontal).

I think this was done in photoshop. Maybe this was multiple exposures in a panorama and the stitching software did this.

Just remembered that I tried to take a vertical panorama while moving the camera horizontally, but it didn't function so I turned the camera horizontally. That is definitely the only explanation that I can think of, considering this was done with my basic phone(I was a wee bit drunk at the time!).

I definitely didn't edit it in photoshop though, but yea the only explanation I can think of was panoramic stitching gone wrong, first exposure was vertical, second exposure was horizontal and I stopped the panoramic capture after that

Its what happens when you set you camera to the panoramic setting, then without noticing youbtake two pictures. In the case of this picture it was probably one with the camera vertical and one with the camera held horizontally. Then the cameras software puts the pictures together and Voila.*

Wow, glad someone could recognize the location! And your right, it's not sunset it's sunrise, I've been mentally and physically so tired after returning from the trip down there a day ago. Spent a week there, fishing and swimming with Whale Sharks, my favorite place to go! Been going there for about 20+ years now, staying at Campo Archelon. Wish I had a house there, jealous!

Caballo island is horsehead island right? La Ventana would be just to the left of the frame in this photo but I didn't get it in there, though I have a ton of shots of it from our camp and our boat

Was just down in Bay of LA in April. Camped on the beach about halfway around the bay. Absolutely amazing. Drove down from San Felipe through Cocos. Question: hows the road to Bahia Las Animas? I went there as a kid and remember it as quite spectacular (the bay, that is).

The bay is amazing, however I went down probably about 2 years ago and I still recall it being mostly dirt. I mean, it's in the middle of nowhere so you can't expect it to improve anytime soon. But yeah the place is amazing not only for views but fishing too.

The duplicate sections, most notably the sun, proves that it is not rolling shutter. I believe the OP was drunk and had the panorama setting on and didn't notice. The auto align software would naturally pick out the ocean, sky and land to be aligned, but because the phone was turned its auto rotate sensors turned off and make the sideways effect.

I have years of photoshop experience and can call out edited photos like no ones business, well because, its my business.

Apparently I turned the camera during a panoramic shot, and my camera doesn't like starting in vertical framing and then ending in horizontal framing, it tried to stitch two exposures together, resulting in this

So I'm pretty sure you were actually taking a panorama (several exposures stitched together) rather than a normal photo. If this was in a single exposure there would be dramatic blurring and an arc around the rotation. If your phone was in panorama mode it would have connected the images along the part where they are most similar, which is what it looks like here.

I've had this happen when using HDR apps on iPhone. True HDR should take 2 separate images - one overexposed, one underexposed, and combine them together. Here's a happy accident that happened when I turned the camera 180 degrees once: http://imgur.com/bcC5aUn